An Introduction to Firefox’s Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
For somebody like me who always has a gazillion tabs open in a browser (even in multiple open browsers), this new alpha testing tab feature in Firefox is going to be an awesome feature to have. It’s called Tab Candy and it basically acts as Expose for your browser tabs. But unlike Expose, Tab Candy has some neat features that allow it to fully be used as an organizational tool rather than simply a tool to find a particular window/tab.
Tab Candy can collect different tabs into groups and keep them aside for later viewing and also allows a new form of extension to be written that acts upon whatever kind of tabs are collected in each group. Overall, it sounds pretty revolutionary in terms of browser tab management and I’m jumping in to test this alpha version before so I can get used to it when the final version becomes available. You can watch the video above to get a better explanation of this neat feature.
Im sorry but it looks like frames, frames were the worst part of html in the early days and it looks like frames setup for tabs. I think its worse than having all those open as tabs, but maybe im wrong and people want to organize a tab which is a temporary document thats open. Most people dont open 500 tabs at at time unless they are in advertising or somethign similar where they need to see that many tabs open at at time. I still think it looks disorganized like frames.
You should test it out. It works pretty well given the fact that it’s still in alpha stages.